film review

The “Israel Lobby”: Facts and Myths

Swiss Policy Research  Updated: March 2022 Languages: English / German High-quality documentaries and reports on the role of the “Israel Lobby” in politics and the media. Note: This compendium does not advocate anti-Jewish or anti-Israel positions. General/Politics 🎥 The Lobby — USA (Investigative documentary, Al Jazeera, 180 min., 2018; more) 📰 Israel and Internet Censorship (Alison Weir, The Ron Unz Review, 2018; video) 🎥 Netanyahu […]

Film on Godse’s Killing of Gandhi: Falsehoods Galore

The film has “Why I killed Gandhi” was recently released. It is an attempt to glorify Nathuram Godse the killer of Mahatma Gandhi. One of its clip, the one related to Godse’s Testimony in Punjab High court is doing rounds in the social media. In the long clip Godse unabashedly falsifies the events and gives them a communal slant. It[Read More...]

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone

A Film Review Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film.  It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people the following day.  It is a deft artistic touch that suggests the brevity of[Read More...]

Oliver Stone Answers his Critics

Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film.  It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people the following day.  It is a deft artistic touch […]
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The Battle at Lake Changjin: China’s Anti-war Film

For decades, Hollywood has produced a plethora of films extolling American military prowess in warfare. Aside from Oliver Stone films and a few others, e.g., Casualties of War, usually these Hollywood films depict the United States as a force for good defeating fascists and other evildoers. Never-ending US militarism has provided a cornucopia of potential […]

The Green Knight: A Captivating Allegory on Human Adventure

The Green Knight, written and directed by David Lowery, is undoubtedly one of the most original and interesting films of the previous year. The film, adapted from the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, tells the story of Gawain, a medieval Knight in Camelot, the castle of legendary King Arthur, who sets out […]
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How A Boy Called Christmas converted me to the politics of greed

This was the Christmas my young daughter finally cornered me into admitting that Father Christmas doesn’t exist. I felt a small pang of regret that she had taken another step towards graduating into the less colourful world of adulthood, but also a larger sense of relief that I could now stop lying to her. What a few years ago seemed[Read More...]